The Mayflower Compact was the first written document providing for self-government in what would later become the United States of America. |
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The oldest written document still governing a sovereign nation today is that of San Marino. |
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They may have been some of the new mass books that were being written at this time. |
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The written music must be kept to perform the music on concert programs and to make new recordings of it. |
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The city was proclaimed capital city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George. |
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The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward. |
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One tale, written by Thomas Occleve, describes the miracle of the Virgin and the Sleeveless Garment. |
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The lead, a widowed art banker, is written for contralto and the role was first created by Hilary Summers. |
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It is written and directed by Ben Elton, who previously created a similar production, We Will Rock You, with music by Queen. |
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A composer would use a written click if they planned to conduct live performers. |
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Extraordinary Sessions may be convened by the President or upon the written request of at least one third of the members. |
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Passports were written in Latin or English until 1772, when French was used instead. |
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The UEFA Champions League Anthem, written by English composer Tony Britten, is played before each game. |
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Instead, the executive enforces the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judiciary. |
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It is believed to be the earliest surviving book written in the English language by a woman. |
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In 2014 a play written by playwright Joe Sutton titled Orwell in America was first performed. |
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A coronation anthem is a piece of choral music written to accompany the coronation of a monarch. |
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He has written six concerti, four string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. |
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In 1998 Whistle Down the Wind made its debut, a musical written with lyrics supplied by Jim Steinman. |
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Since the band's beginning, nearly all songs had been written by and credited to a single member, with other members adding minimally. |
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Guest later claimed that he had written and directed the film as a vehicle for Sellers, and thus had started Sellers's film career. |
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The script was written by Bond screenwriting regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, as well as John Logan. |
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The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. |
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On 2 September a more celebrated mock obituary, written by Reginald Shirley Brooks, appeared in The Sporting Times. |
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The Canticle of Saint Eulalie, written in the second half of the 9th century, is generally accepted as the first such text. |
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The short form often used in English, Mann, is derived from the Manx Mannin, though sometimes the name is written as Man. |
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The first books in Slovene, Catechismus and Abecedarium, were written by Trubar. |
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The speech, written by Charles Bohlen, contained virtually no details and no numbers. |
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The first written record of the pony was in 1603 in the Court Books of Shetland and, for its size, it is the strongest of all the horse breeds. |
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However, the oath was officially made public by the Blair Government in a written parliamentary answer in 1998, as follows. |
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John's Eve written in 1853 by Henrik Ibsen relies heavily on the Shakespearean play. |
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But parts were almost certainly written earlier, and its roots lie in Milton's earliest youth. |
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Elements from these works show up in her fiction, much of which is written with her trademark sense of agnostic humanism. |
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Priestley had written about England north of the Trent, sparking an interest in reportage. |
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The Discworld Companion, written with Stephen Briggs, is an encyclopaedic guide to Discworld. |
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From an extant letter written by Thomas Purcell we learn that this anthem was composed for the exceptionally fine voice of the Rev. |
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In each of the major works written in the years after Paris, Delius combined orchestral and vocal forces. |
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The first quartet was written soon after Vaughan Williams's studies in Paris with Ravel, whose influence is strongly evident. |
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The Piano was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first acting role. |
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Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual Sydmonton Festival. |
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From 1937 to 1941, a series of stones were discovered that were claimed to have been written by Eleanor Dare, mother of Virginia Dare. |
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In early 1986, Queen recorded the album A Kind of Magic, containing several reworkings of songs written for the fantasy action film Highlander. |
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However, Hibbert notes in his biography that the letter can be found among the Duke's papers, with nothing written on it. |
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Shops were stocked with Chaplin merchandise, he was featured in cartoons and comic strips, and several songs were written about him. |
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Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, written in 1908, is set in the middle to upper reaches of the river. |
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A further agent's part was then written for Terence Cooper, to cover Sellers's departure. |
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The Canterbury Tales was written during a turbulent time in English history. |
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Oral tradition was very strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. |
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Other revenge tragedies include The Changeling written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. |
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At this time, the library catalogue was written on scrolls of fine silk and stored in silk bags. |
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He has written an autobiography with the late Sky TV darts commentator Sid Waddell. |
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It was the world's first literate civilization, and formed the first sets of written laws. |
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Between the 10th and 13th centuries, some local vernaculars developed a written form and began to supplant Latin in many of its roles. |
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Ireland has a common law legal system with a written constitution that provides for a parliamentary democracy. |
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It is Jonson's only pastoral drama, it was written in sophisticated verse and included supernatural action and characters. |
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What is more, no less than the written word, the coin acted upon the culture and mental categories of people who made use of it. |
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The two primary streams of Ottoman written literature are poetry and prose. |
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Holly Black has also written a book called Tithe, in which the main character is a pixie. |
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In 1845, rugby union was created when the first rules were written by pupils at Rugby School, Warwickshire. |
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Although Norn was spoken for hundreds of years it is now extinct and few written sources remain. |
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British English spellings and conventions are used in print media and formal written communications. |
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Statute law is written by a government's legislative body and signed into law by its executive. |
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The Earl of Rochester hired such thugs to attack John Dryden suspected of having written An Essay on Satire. |
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In 1817, William Hazlitt found the play to be better as a written work than a staged production. |
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Alleyn was unusually tall for the time, and the haughty roles of Tamburlaine, Faustus, and Barabas were probably written especially for him. |
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However, by the end of the Short Parliament in 1640, he had written a short treatise called The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic. |
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Also in 1845, Percy Bysshe Shelley's cousin Thomas Medwin approached her claiming to have written a damaging biography of Percy Shelley. |
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Scenes of Clerical Life was widely believed to have been written by a country parson or perhaps the wife of a parson. |
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He recorded several albums of Kipling's verse set to traditional airs, or to tunes of his own composition written in traditional style. |
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Part of it may have been written at the time when the pages were destroyed, though this is unclear. |
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This letter was written whilst my hostess of the George was preparing the last meal I ever was to eat. |
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During the meeting, Pratchett mentioned he had written a manuscript, The Carpet People. |
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From soon after we have records of short children's rhyming songs, but most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century. |
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Until the modern era lullabies were usually only recorded incidentally in written sources. |
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Biographies of George written during the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century relied on these biased accounts. |
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When Rostropovich made his farewell visit a few days later, Britten gave him what he had written of Praise We Great Men. |
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No documents written in Common Brittonic have been found, but a few inscriptions have been identified. |
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The New Testament, originally written in Koine Greek, contains 27 books which are agreed upon by all churches. |
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The De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, written by Gildas, contains the best preservation of the Welsh tradition. |
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The book was written for professionals, but an intelligent layperson could understand most of it. |
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Robert Macklin, an associate editor with The Canberra Times newspaper, has also written about the similarities. |
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During the union with Denmark, the government imposed using only written Danish, which decreased the writing of Norwegian literature. |
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This is a task dispatched to one of three assistants, from whom he demands formal, written apologies when they behave insubordinately. |
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Programs written in the BASIC language are usually run through an interpreter, though some can be compiled. |
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They performed songs by the Searchers and material written by their manager and songwriter, fellow student Ken Chapman. |
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At their first meeting, Williams gave Dwight a stack of lyrics written by Bernie Taupin, who had answered the same ad. |
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His hypothesis was written up in De corpore saturni but before the work was published, Huygens presented his theory of the rings of Saturn. |
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The Instrument of Government, The Protectorate's written constitutions, gave to the Lord Protector the King's power to grant titles of honour. |
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Nelson is also celebrated and commemorated in numerous songs, written both during his life and following his death. |
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Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there. |
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The Foundation continues to serve the broad purposes for which it was established as written in the Memorandum of Understanding. |
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Few people in Rowshan regularly read Khowar works, however, and their attitudes towards the value of written Khowar are ambivalent. |
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If a written application is refused, the applicant may ask for an oral hearing to discuss the refusal. |
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Elections only occur if, following the advertisement of the vacancy for 14 days, 10 electors send a written request to the returning officer. |
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It did not help that the first life of Wren, Parentalis, was written by Wren's son, and tended to exaggerate Wren's work over all others. |
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When disorder arose among some members of the societies, Wesley adopted giving tickets to members, with their names written by his own hand. |
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Some critics value it highly, pointing to music such as that written by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Aaron Copland, Bernard Herrmann, and others. |
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The first drafts of the script were written by Jonathan Nolan, and it was originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg. |
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Most contemporary literary and written sources on the Vikings come from other cultures that were in contact with them. |
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The kings of these small kingdoms issued written Laws, one of earliest of which is that attributed to Ethelbert, king of Kent, ca. |
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These stories were written when Kipling lived in Naulakha, the home he built in Dummerston, Vermont, in the United States. |
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A letter written and signed by Rudyard Kipling in 1895 was put up for auction in 2013 by Andrusier. |
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The first written rules originated in Scotland, as did the establishment of the 18 hole course. |
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The sheep was killed and the car written off, and in the aftermath of this event the informal race became known as the Mutton Grand Prix. |
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As with most languages, written language tends to use a more formal register than spoken language. |
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The books of those that wrote before us survive, and therefore we are taught about what was written then. |
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His biography was first written by Cardinal Boso in his extension to the Liber Pontificalis. |
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Standard German originated not as a traditional dialect of a specific region but as a written language. |
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First written in 1849, it establishes a sovereign state in the form of a constitutional monarchy, with a representative parliamentary system. |
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Although a rich spoken tradition survived, for 300 years the language was not written down. |
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Soon after his death a Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, was written by Stephen of Ripon, a monk of Ripon. |
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We have it on William's authority that the letter was written by Aldhelm of Malmesbury and addressed to Wilfrid's abbots. |
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Hindu scriptures were composed, memorized and transmitted verbally, across generations, for many centuries before they were written down. |
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The main sources for the life of Becket are a number of biographies that were written by contemporaries. |
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In Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore, the Malay language is now generally written in the Latin script. |
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Instead the constitution is found within a variety of written and some unwritten sources. |
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The games played at Rugby were organised by the pupils and not the masters, the rules being a matter of custom and not written down. |
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Many of these were written by the specialists involved in creating and curating the new displays. |
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The genre of satire was traditionally regarded as a Roman innovation, and satires were written by, among others, Juvenal and Persius. |
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Believed to have been written in the 1390s, Chaucer's short poem Fortune, is also inferred to directly reference Lancaster. |
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The oldest written record of the name Jessica is in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. |
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The use of hops in beer was written of as early as 822 by a Carolingian Abbot. |
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The latter portion of the 14th century also saw the consolidation of English as a written language and a shift to secular writing. |
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However, many other scholars believe the poem to have been written during various years between the eight and tenth centuries. |
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In the 20th century, numerous books were written and published locally, though few were directed at a wider market than Bermuda. |
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A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs a state, city or country. |
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This book is the most lyrical of all her works, not only in feeling but in style, being chiefly written in verse. |
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Her Revelations of Divine Love, written around 1395, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman. |
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Published in 1395, it is the first published book in the English language to be written by a woman. |
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It was written for a wedding, and part of the festive structure of the wedding night. |
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Cmene are always written with a period at the end, and if they start with a vowel then also with a period at the beginning. |
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The article was written to demystify the mechanics of the internal combustion engine. |
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An early biography of Sidney was written by his friend and schoolfellow, Fulke Greville. |
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Six of these were written by fellow churchmen, others by such courtly writers as Thomas Carew, Sidney Godolphin and Endymion Porter. |
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Moorman, claimed the first extant work of English literature, Beowulf, was written in Yorkshire, this view does not have common acceptance today. |
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The full text of the speech, which he had previously written out, was presented to Dallas in manuscript form and he quotes it in his work. |
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Accident and health insurance written by fraternals are discussed under the section on fraternals. |
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Chesterton was also godfather to Bentley's son, Nicolas, and opened his novel The Man Who Was Thursday with a poem written to Bentley. |
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In terms of intonation the preposition is fused to the verb, but in writing it is written as a separate word. |
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It chanced that I had written a tale about Indian Forestry work which included a boy who had been brought up by wolves. |
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In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, Wessex Poems, a collection of poems written over 30 years. |
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Additionally, each Member of Parliament is entitled to table questions for written answer. |
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Bede also wrote homilies, works written to explain theology used in worship services. |
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Landscape studies draw upon a variety of topographical, archaeological and written sources. |
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These pages were written by John Joscelyn, who was secretary to Matthew Parker. |
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Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, a few of which were written by close friends, such as Roger Lancelyn Green and George Sayer. |
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The biographies of Aristotle written in ancient times are often speculative and historians only agree on a few salient points. |
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In the pontifical universities postgraduate courses of Canon law are taught in Latin, and papers are written in the same language. |
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The Renaissance dance music was written for instruments such as the lute, viol, tabor, pipe, and the sackbut. |
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Today, the numbers can be written with the Arabic numbers as well as with Roman numerals. |
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Significantly, Baronius termed the age 'dark' because of the paucity of written records. |
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Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot. |
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In the preterite, future and conditional mood tenses, there are inflected forms of all verbs, which are used in the written language. |
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The University of Birmingham's Special Collections contain an archive of letters written by Elgar. |
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Since the discovery happened several millennia before the invention of writing, there is no written record about how it was made. |
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It is written in Latin inscriptional capitals, and is in the Gallic language. |
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During the Roman period, the name was also written in the form Eboracum and Eburacum. |
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He summoned the bishops, and told them of his hope to be baptized in the River Jordan, where Christ was written to have been baptized. |
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A life of Augustine was written by Goscelin around 1090, but this life portrays Augustine in a different light than Bede's account. |
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Elegies written in the persona of its dispossessed rulers record the sorrow at this loss. |
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Further details were added to the story in the Historia Brittonum, which was partially written by Nennius. |
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After 491 the written history of Sussex goes blank until 607, when the annals report that Ceolwulf of Wessex fought against the South Saxons. |
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There are some written descriptions of a burly and robust appearance, with a guttural voice. |
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This is because they have two official written standards, in addition to the habit of strongly holding on to local dialects. |
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Several Uralic Sami languages are spoken and written throughout the country, especially in the north, by some members of the Sami people. |
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Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence, this influenced the literature written in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. |
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Gruffudd ap Cynan's biography was first written in Latin and intended for a wider audience outside Wales. |
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The most important written accounts are those contained in administrative records. |
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The rebel manifesto, The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, was written under Cade's leadership. |
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Rous himself, in his History of the Kings of England, written during Henry VII's reign, initiated the process. |
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All finished, and some unfinished, poems written by, or plausibly attributed to, Ralegh. |
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By late 1586, she had been persuaded to sanction her trial and execution on the evidence of letters written during the Babington Plot. |
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Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro. |
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Raleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. |
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The work is considered to be well written and perhaps the best example of James's prose. |
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Shakespeare's first plays were written in the conventional style of the day. |
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Ten days after Charles's execution, on the day of his interment, a memoir purporting to be written by the king appeared for sale. |
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Clarendon was not one of Cromwell's confidantes, and his account was written after the Restoration of the monarchy. |
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The Outlander novel series, written by Diana Gabaldon, and its TV adaptation take place during pivotal battles in the Jacobite uprising. |
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Some poetry became infused with scientific metaphor and imagery, while other poems were written directly about scientific topics. |
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This book was written for Juggalos by a Juggalo. I highly doubt anybody else would ever get the humor within these pages. |
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Various artists have written songs entitled Glastonbury or about the festival including Nizlopi, The Waterboys and Scouting for Girls. |
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All is written in shaky kana letters, only with one or two kanjis, i.e. the Chinese letters. |
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The overwhelming part is written in the English language, but there are also pieces of literature written in Scots, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. |
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However, due to the adoption of the southern standard by officialdom and the Education system the use of written Scots declined. |
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With little knowledge of the topic they turned to the only other person who had written on the subject and passed the paper on to Griffith. |
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Shortly after Henry V's victory over the French at Agincourt in 1415, a song was written to celebrate the victory. |
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Litigation that is settled out of court generates no written decision, and thus has no precedential effect. |
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The Cranbrook tune to On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at was written by Thomas Clark, a Kent shoemaker. |
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Much of the scholarly and written culture of the new kingdoms was also based on Roman intellectual traditions. |
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And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. |
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Darwin's book was only partly written when, on 18 June 1858, he received a paper from Wallace describing natural selection. |
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I gripped the iron bed with hands om which I had written the price of a limited slip differential. |
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A charter was a written document from a king or other authority confirming a grant either of land or some other valuable right. |
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Babbage is not known to have written down an explicit set of instructions for the engine in the manner of a modern processor manual. |
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Turing proved that if an algorithm can be written to solve a mathematical problem, then a Turing machine can execute that algorithm. |
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Mabuse only included one original piece written for the movie by Hans Erdmann played at the very beginning and end of the movie. |
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One of the first and most complete works on both infinitesimal and integral calculus was written in 1748 by Maria Gaetana Agnesi. |
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Full Employment in a Free Society, written in 1944 expressed how this goal might be gained. |
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Although the official name was Stansted Mountfitchet, the base was known as simply Stansted in both written and spoken form. |
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Parliamentary Questions can be tabled for ministers in either house of Parliament for either written or oral reply. |
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Written answers, which are usually more specific and detailed than oral questions are usually written by a civil servant. |
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An anonymous life of Cuthbert written at Lindisfarne is the oldest extant piece of English historical writing. |
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In Northern Ireland, James Fenton's poetry is written in contemporary Ulster Scots. |
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Both archaeological finds and written sources testify to the fact that the Vikings set aside time for social and festive gatherings. |
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The nature of these powers is written in the sacred palms leaf books, the lontars, in which all sacred Balinese writings are preserved. |
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Then inks had to be made from oak galls and other ingredients, and the books had to be hand written by monks using quill pens. |
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Primitive Irish does appear in a specialised written form, using a unique script known as Ogham. |
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Barry Hearn claimed that, as a draw was not written into the contract, Eubank was free to sign a new deal with him instead of King. |
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He saw himself reflected in Mhoram's eyes, saw himself standing lornly with what he had lost written in his face. |
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The Ayenbite of Inwyt, a translation of a French confessional prose work, completed in 1340, is written in a Kentish dialect. |
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For the most part, the written forms of Norman and modern French are intercomprehensible. |
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In other cases, by analogy, the consonant was written double merely to indicate the lack of lengthening. |
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Numbers were still always written using Roman numerals, except for some rare occurrences of Arabic numerals during the 15th century. |
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However, the last verse was the Cranken Rhyme, written in the late 19th century by John Davey of Boswednack. |
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In addition, many more words were borrowed from Latin through the influence of written language and the liturgical language of the Church. |
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The actual charter was written in the Parliamentary Assembly based on the Congress' Recommendations. |
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He has written novels, poetry, and other works, including translations from Russian. |
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The educated Madrid variety has most influenced the written standard for Spanish. |
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This triggered a Brahman backlash in northwestern India, which argued that the language should be written in the native Devanagari script. |
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Until the late 19th century, all proceedings and court transactions in this register of Urdu were written officially in the Persian script. |
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Harvey Lights a Candle, written by Rhidian Brook and directed by Susanna White. |
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His written sermons are characterised by spiritual earnestness and simplicity. |
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The copy of John Lydgate's 15th century Life written for Henry VI of England is now in the British Library. |
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Another early text to mention Alban is the Vita Germani, or Life of St Germanus of Auxerre, written about 480 by Constantius of Lyon. |
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Wilfrid was one of the first churchmen in Northumbria to utilise written charters as records of gifts to his churches. |
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A long letter exists, written from the Tower by Fisher to Thomas Cromwell, speaking of the severity of his conditions of imprisonment. |
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This account appears in a foreword written by Oda for Frithegod's later poem on Wilfrid's life. |
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More's best known and most controversial work, Utopia is a novel written in Latin. |
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Sir Thomas More is a play written circa 1592 in collaboration with Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and others. |
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The first Buddhist canonical texts, were likely written down in Sri Lanka, about 400 years after the Buddha died. |
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Note each palm leaf section was only several lines, written longitudinally across the leaf, and bound by twine to the other sections. |
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In February, 2011, the Dutch State Secretary of Education decided to adhere to the recommendations written in a report by the Veerman Commission. |
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Though the latter's main works were written after leaving Oxford, Locke was heavily influenced by his twelve years at the university. |
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College does not have an informal name, although the abbreviation Coll is sometimes used, especially on written work. |
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In 1815, Eton College documented its football rules, the first football code to be written down anywhere in the world. |
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The tablets were written in Latin, and cursed people whom the writers felt had wronged them. |
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The household was run by a chamberlain, while a treasurer took care of the estate's written records. |
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Similar incidents are described in the medieval biographies of Carannog, Padarn, and Eufflam, probably written around the 12th century. |
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Tresham managed to convince the pair that he had not written the letter, but urged them to abandon the plot. |
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The play may have been written in the Garter Inn, opposite the Castle, but this was destroyed by fire in the late 17th century. |
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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, regarded by some as his masterpiece, was written for the opening of the new cathedral. |
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The Forme of Cury may have been written partly to compete with Le Viandier of Taillevent, a French cookbook created around the same time. |
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Some attach a red heart with the name of the girl written on it to the tree. |
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They also note that the recipes were written with the advice of the best experts in medicine and philosophy. |
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However, the term pasty appears in much earlier written records from other parts of the country, as mentioned above. |
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The text is written in insular script, and is the best documented and most complete insular manuscript of the period. |
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It was written in Latin on vellum, using a southern English Uncial script with Rustic Capital rubrics. |
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The 2014 film, Effie Gray, written by Emma Thompson, features Tom Sturridge as Millais. |
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These are written in the form of dialogues, and in two of them the interlocutors are Charlemagne and Alcuin. |
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Lives were often written to promote the cult of local or national states, and in particular to develop pilgrimages to visit relics. |
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Irish hagiographers wrote primarily in Latin while some of the later saint's lives were written in the hagiographer's native vernacular Irish. |
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Some were written a long time after the death of a saint, but others were written not long after the saint's demise. |
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Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language. |
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He has also composed the music for the children's television series Titch which is based on the books written and illustrated by Pat Hutchins. |
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Various academics have written on how the Scottish Parliament can be improved as a governing institution. |
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Some alphabetisms are written as if they weren't alphabetisms at all, like deejay for DJ, disc jockey, or emcee for MC, master of ceremonies. |
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Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. |
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The winning entry was a poem written in Asturian, one of the first such in Asturian literature. |
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Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face. |
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Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me? |
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Most babas had little contact with written culture and are not therefore named in books and treatises. |
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If you had not written to me... we had broke now, the Frenchmen bogged us so often with departing. |
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The soul of dialect is cacography, the deliberate misspelling of words for comic effect, which is the written equivalent of the malapropism. |
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One night, I remember, we sang a catch, written by Orlo Williams, for three voices. |
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This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures. |
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I did this in thirty pages of closely written matter, of which a pressed copy remains in my commonplace-book. |
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These messages are written in a creative blend of coolspeak and text message language. |
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This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions. |
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An entire book should be written just about the issue of who controls cyberspeech. |
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This letter had to be written in Deutsch because neither Paul nor Harriet knew Danish. |
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The program as written by the programmer is generally processed into an executable that can be run. |
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The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics and in enchorial letters, with a Greek translation. |
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After the war began, the Magazine included many reviews, at least 34 of which were written by Johnson. |
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He may cope with the multiple choice questions, but the written exam will find him out. |
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We must remember, however, that all these figurings are written with reference to the tonic signature. |
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I had a big flounderish diatribe written up, but this isn't the place for it. |
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The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. |
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Now, other than the fact that that is bureaucratic gobblygook written by somebody whose fourth language must be English. |
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It was written in Cumbric or Old Welsh and contains the earliest known reference to King Arthur. |
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By the 21st century, English was more widely spoken and written than any language has ever been. |
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A few short inscriptions from the early period of Old English were written using a runic script. |
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Standard English spelling is based on a graphomorphemic segmentation of words into written clues of what meaningful units make up each word. |
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The great majority of literary works in Old English that survive to today are written in the Roman alphabet. |
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All law systems rely on written publication of the law, so that it is accessible to all. |
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The plea rolls, which were the official court records for the Courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench, were written in Latin. |
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Most of the details about the epidemics are lost, probably due to the scarcity of surviving written records. |
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Singapore Chinese characters are written using simplified Chinese characters. |
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Feudalism allowed the state to provide a degree of public safety despite the continued absence of bureaucracy and written records. |
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The Chronicle, commissioned by King Alfred the Great, drew on earlier oral traditions and on the few written fragments available. |
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De temporibus, or On Time, written in about 703, provides an introduction to the principles of Easter computus. |
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It is generally agreed that the original version was written in the late 9th century by a scribe in Wessex. |
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Many later entries, especially those written by contemporaries, contained a great deal of historical narrative under the year headings. |
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It was written in Medieval Latin, was highly abbreviated, and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. |
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Medieval Latin is the written Latin in use during that portion of the postclassical period when no corresponding Latin vernacular existed. |
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Classicist Mary Beard wrote in The Times Literary Supplement in 2006 that the reason for learning Latin is because of what was written in it. |
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Therefore, until the end of the 17th century the majority of books and almost all diplomatic documents were written in Latin. |
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Afterwards, most diplomatic documents were written in French and later just native or other languages. |
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Ptolemy's Geographia, written in the 2nd century, is sometimes considered to contain the first mentioning of the Saxons. |
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The Leges Statutae Republicae Sancti Marini was written in Latin and consists of six books. |
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